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Published 02:42, November the 5th, 2009
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Former beauty queen sex tape

 
 

OOh, Carrie Prejean. If you weren’t so dumb, we’d probably feel sorry for you.

After the former beauty queen demanded more than a million dollars during the settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials for kicking her out “unfairly,” a lawyer for the Pageant showed her his trump card — a Prejean sex tape.

TMZ.com reports that they have seen the tape and that it’s “extremely graphic.” Once Prejean learned that the organization had the tape, she withdrew her demands.

Sex tape? We wonder what the National Organization for Marriage — who paid Prejean to appear in a TV advertisement this year opposing same-sex marriages — thinks about this. Are sex tapes OK as long as those participating are married and not gay? Because Prejean fits only one of those criteria.

 
 
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